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My last 911 was black and I liked that but the yellow just looks so nice - it was the car I had on a poster when I was a kid and that always stuck in my mind.
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I put three layers of Primer on and used the tack cloth to clean the surface between sprays and after the primer had dried a bit (after waiting 15 minutes).
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The console I painted on was in rough shape so I removed all of the paint on it with 400 grit wet sand and then used 800 then 1500 grit.
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I put three layers of Primer on and used the tack cloth to clean the surface between sprays and after the primer had dried a bit (after waiting 15 minutes).
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My last 911 was black and I liked that but the yellow just looks so nice - it was the car I had on a poster when I was a kid and that always stuck in my mind.
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I've got an 03 996 Turbo in Speed Yellow with a black interior and the center console is showing its age with the typical peeling and wear (its black). The car has the "aluminum look" package which includes the gauge surround, steering wheel and thin plastic trim (the one that says "airbag") all in light silver. I have a friend in the auto body business and he can paint my center console with a factory finish. I was looking for opinions on that - do I keep with the theme and do it in silver or have it matched to the car in Speed Yellow? I really like the yellow but I have a feeling that with the other silver trim pieces will be too much. What do y'all think?
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more money but nothing looks as good as the carbon fiber on the center console. I get lots of compliments. If not carbon go silver and wrap the backs of your sport seats yellow.
Thanks for the input guys. I think I've outgrown the carbon fiber stage and although I think it looks cool I wouldn't do it on my own car. When I decide on what I'm doing I'll post before and after pics. Was thinking that if I go with yellow, I'd swap the seat belts and get those in yellow as well. Someone mentioned getting the sport seats and do the back in yellow - I'd love to do that as well but my car has the standard seats so i'll be on the hunt for a set of those sooner or later.
I would go Speed Yellow console and seatbelts in a heartbeat, I love it as an interior accent colour. Hardback seats sounds like a bit more of an investment, they look ridiculously cool but the sets I've seen haven't gone cheaply.
I bought a painted Ocean Blue console to match my exterior, hasn't gone in yet but I'll post pictures once it does.
My old 996 was Guards Red and all the areas you mentioned, except the center console, was Guards Red as well. The console was black. I struggled with having that painted GR too, but thought it would be too much. Maybe start with the accents and then you'll know whether you want to go full yellow or not...
Doing the center in yellow with the silver accents and otherwise black interior IS a lot going on.
This is the Nissan Juke interior, which suffers from exactly the issue OP mentions...
Carbon Fiber is for the small shrimp. If you wanna go big, gotta do the Carbon Kevlar. Coincidentally, it comes in it's native black/yellow schema which would be suitable for OP's application since he has a yellow car.
Update - I decided to go with Speed Yellow. Here are some in progress pictures, more to come once installed. I figure if I don't like the yellow I can get it repainted. I also have some yellow seat belts coming from Maxspeed Motorsports to round it all out. The lighting in these two pictures is different hence the shade of yellow looking off on them. It turned out nice. What a pain in the *** to reassemble the ashtray door and armrest though...
Looks great! I just did mine also in Arctic Silver Metallic at a body shop. I concur that the reassembly is a pain. Definitely a worthwhile mod that makes the interior look more classy and exotic.
Yellow looks great!
Was black exterior paint on the console factory option? I looked in the '04 brochure and it mentions "rear section in exterior colour". I haven't seen a pic of a black painted console though...
I sanded mine, got a few cans of black matte plasti dip. Matches existing radio surround. Spent a $20 bucks and it isn't permanent and It holds up well.
I did this same project and used:
EM 38353 Plastic Prep
SEM 39133 Flexible Primer Surfacer
www.automotivetouchup.com
Arctic Silver Metallic 92T
USC Spray Max 2k High Gloss Clearcoat Aerosol
The console I painted on was in rough shape so I removed all of the paint on it with 400 grit wet sand and then used 800 then 1500 grit. Then I cleaned it with Plastic prep and a Tack cloth.
I put three layers of Primer on and used the tack cloth to clean the surface between sprays and after the primer had dried a bit (after waiting 15 minutes). After waiting a few days for the Primer to dry, I then put on 5 or so sprays of paint and 4 sprays of the Clearcoat with 30 min between sprays.
Its been a year now and my center console looks just like it did right after I finished the job. I think many light sprays was the key with time in between each spray. The finish seems very hard and has yet to scratch.
For those who have asked, the original was the soft touch matte black finish and it was peeling in a few spots. It was sanded down to bare plastic (400, 800, 1500) then primed and finished with the single stage paint.
Yeah, the Speed Yellow does scream "look at me", which is actually the thing I hate the most about it. My last 911 was black and I liked that but the yellow just looks so nice - it was the car I had on a poster when I was a kid and that always stuck in my mind.
I was just giving you a hard time. My car has red seatbelts and guards red seat backs. When I was looking last year, speed yellow was one of 4 colors I limited myself to. Looks great!
Love the color matched sport seats, I'm looking for a pair now. I'll take a beat down pair in whatever color I can get them all redone the way I want so if anyone knows of anything, let me know!
I have my car all back together (interior anyways) and I'll post some pictures soon.
